>The VFP 7.0 EULA contained the same basic info but it was simply clarified in more detail for VFP 8.0. The VFP 7.0 EULA says...
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>A SOFTWARE PRODUCT labeled as an upgrade replaces and/or supplements the product that formed the basis for your eligibility for the upgrade.

My own take on this is that version 7 may have intended what is clear in version 8, but didn't say it very well. "replaces and/or supplements"? I choose 'supplements'.

Whether or not MS can make a case under version 7 is really not the important issue right now. Version 8 clears up the intentions (mostly). I don't like it, but at least it's quasi-clear. Now I have to make a decision.

Still, it's unfortunate that contract drafters can't ever say what they really mean, and feel the need to use meaningless phrases - in version 7 "and/or" (a phrase which judges hate with a passion), and in version 8, 'a reasonable time'.

Alan